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Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Making History In Jerusalem - Joseph Klein

by Joseph Klein

New US embassy opens, as assault on Israel's borders continues.

The United States is officially opening its Israeli embassy in Jerusalem today, making May 14, 2018 an
historic day for the Jewish State of Israel. Other U.S. presidents have
made campaign promises to move the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,
only to abandon their promises in deference to the foreign policy
establishment and "international" opinion. In moving forward to fulfill
his promise to move the embassy to Jerusalem, President Trump ignored
the foreign policy establishment and "international" opinion, much as President Harry Truman did
when he gave de facto recognition to the newly created State of Israel
only eleven minutes after Israel’s proclamation of its independence.

President Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law and key adviser Jared
Kushner are representing President Trump for the opening of the new
embassy. The Israelis are celebrating. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
declared at his weekly cabinet meeting, "President Trump promised to
recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and he did so. He promised
to move the American Embassy to Israel and he is doing so. Of course we
will all celebrate this day.”

President Trump’s decision,
denounced not only by the Palestinians themselves, as expected, but by
amoral government leaders and opinion makers all around the world,
should not be so controversial. Each nation has the sovereign right to
locate its own embassies wherever it chooses. The U.S. embassy will be
located in West Jerusalem, not in any area claimed by the Palestinians
to be part of their future "capital" in East Jerusalem. Moreover,
President Trump clearly stated that U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel is not intended to decide any final status issues
regarding Jerusalem as a whole. Finally, the United Nations resolutions that
the critics of President Trump’s decision rely upon to support their
objections on “legal” grounds do little to help their case. The General
Assembly has no legal authority under the UN Charter to require anything
of the member states except payment of their annual budget assessments.
The Security Council has huffed and puffed about so-called “illegal”
Israeli settlements including in East Jerusalem and called upon member
states to withdraw their embassies from Jerusalem, but did so solely in
the form of completely non-binding resolutions.

President
Trump did what he thought was the right thing to do, as President Truman
had done seventy years ago when he said, "I had faith in Israel before
it was established, I have faith in it now." President Trump was
willing, in President Truman’s words when dealing with his critics
regarding the Palestine situation, “to let them all go to hell."

Unfortunately, it looks like there will be some hell to pay from the Palestinians before this week is over. On Sunday, which was being observed ahead of the embassy opening as Jerusalem Day by Israelis, the day was marred by clashes that broke out between Jews and Arabs on the Temple Mount.
In order to keep the peace, Israeli police officers separated the two
sides, and removed Jews from the Temple Mount who had allegedly broken
the rules of conduct that ban all non-Muslims from praying or singing on
the Temple Mount where Al-Aqsa Mosque is situated.

Of course, it is not enough for the Palestinians that the Israeli
government forbids Jews to sing or pray at loud on what is the Jewish
peoples’ holiest site, out of undeserved deference to Muslims'
sensibilities because of their mosque’s location on the Temple Mount.
Palestinians want complete control of Old Jerusalem, including the
entire Temple Mount and the area in which the Western Wall is located.
Even that is not enough for many Palestinians. They are encouraged by
their irresponsible leaders, including Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas who has said that Israel is a “colonialist enterprise,” to
believe that the Jewish State of Israel is illegitimate. Millions of
Palestinian descendants born years after the creation of the State of
Israel in 1948 are brought up with the fantasy that they have a
so-called “right of return” to “homes” inside Israel, some of which were
abandoned by their parents, grandparents or great grandparents seventy
years ago.

Israel is preparing for mass Palestinian protests
early this week along the Gaza border with Israel, bolstering its IDF
forces and bringing in special firefighting squads according to a
Debkafile report. The air space over and around Gaza has been reportedly
closed by Israeli authorities. More intense violence than in past weeks
is expected as Hamas leaders have called for waves of Palestinians to
break through the border fence separating Israel from Gaza, the
culmination of seven weeks of “Return Marches” demanding the so-called
“right of return.” The opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem,
together with the 70th anniversary of what the Palestinians call the
"nakba," or catastrophe resulting from the creation of Israel as an
independent state in what Palestinians still fantasize as their land,
are likely to send the protesters into overdrive. "What's the problem
with hundreds of thousands breaking through a fence that is not a
border?" Hamas’s Gaza head Yahya Sinwar asked rhetorically.
The Palestinian propagandists and their supporters try to portray the
Gaza protests as the peaceful exercise of freedom of speech and assembly
by unarmed Palestinian civilians. In truth, Hamas leaders and other
Islamists are preaching violence and using civilians, including
children, as human shields to carry out their jihad against Israel. Late
last month, for example, a Gaza cleric Sheikh Musa Abu Jleidan preached violence when
he said that the "Great Return March" is a "form of Jihad" that "does
not eliminate the need for Jihad by the sword, by missiles, and by
rockets. They go hand in hand." He added that Jews “are the philosophers
of terrorism and crime, people of treachery and deceit, who slayed the
prophets of Allah. It is an honor for us, here on this blessed land, to
have been chosen by Allah to fight them and to strike fear in them."

A young Palestinian girl protesting at one of the Return March rallies absorbed the jihad message. She was heard exclaiming "Martyrs
in the millions are marching to Jerusalem. Palestine forever! Jerusalem
belongs to us, not to the filthy Israel." Other protesters cheered her
on, shouting “Allah Akbar.”

Any Palestinians marching to
Jerusalem to oust Jews are not martyrs. They are usurpers. Historically,
Jews have been living in Jerusalem continuously for more than three
millennia. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any sovereign nation
except of the Jewish people. In more recent times, Jews have constituted
the largest single group of inhabitants in Jerusalem since at least the
mid-1800s. Prior to the Jordanians’ illegal occupation, Jerusalem was
an undivided city. Jerusalem is so again today, open to worshippers of
all faiths. It is the Palestinians who seek to replicate Jordan’s
temporary illegal occupation and division of Jerusalem and make it
permanent, imposing an ethnic and religious cleansing of any Jewish
residents in the Old City. President Trump’s bold decision, fulfilled
this week, will go down in history along with his predecessor President
Truman’s early recognition of the Jewish State of Israel.